On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:01:58AM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 5/19/23 04:36, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 20:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk > > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> > >> a 386 desktop running Win98SE (first version to support USB) > > > > Hang on a minute. > > > > [1] Win98 on a 386? Really? It might work but it will be horribly > > horribly slow. > > > > Win95 was just barely usable on a 386; I benchmarked it at release. > > I'm not so sure about a 386 and Win98. Seems to me I tried to install > 98SE on a 20MHz 386 years ago and it didn't work. Said 386 has a > whopping 13MB of RAM, all located on a plug in card. The AT-sized > motherboard is nothing but SSI/MSI TTL with no custom chipsets, so no > room for RAM. [...]
According to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98#System_requirements the lowliest machine supported is 486 with 16MB (Windows 98) or 24MB (Windows 98SE). However, "Users can bypass processor requirement checks with the undocumented /NM setup switch. This allows installation on computers with processors as old as the Intel 80386." But I have no way to verify this. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
